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Free Software Foundation, Tamil Nadu and Linux entusiasts of Tamil Nadu are together holding 2nd Regional Convention on Free Software on 7th of March, 2010. You are invited.

Speakers :
1. Mr. Uma Shankar, IAS
2. Dr. Venkatesh Athreya, Frontline

source: Siddhartha via ILUGC mailing list

It is a matter of great pride and excitement for all the IT professionals, Students, Lecturers, Public Sector institution, Free and Open Source Companies and anyone who is related to the Information Technology directly or indirectly in Bangalore that the National Conference On Free Software is being held in Bangalore on March 20 and 21st which would be hosted by the Free Software Movement of Karnataka(FSMK).The conference aims at enhancing awareness on Free Software in the country.

As run-up to the Conference, we will be organizing Technical Workshops in colleges, inviting other college students and professionals in Bangalore for the same.These will be in the mode of hands-on workshops like we have been doing in the past. We are also trying to focus on the Kannada localization, Accessibility tools and customized distributions for students. There will also be some interesting inputs to the Conference in terms of activities from the Slum Computing Centers as well.

In the conference, apart from spreading the word of Free Software

-- We are trying to focus on the sociology of ICT as a whole.
-- Discussions on the Policy track will focus on working with the IT ministry to try and get Free Software in school education in Karnataka
-- Our community has been keenly watching version 2.4 of Draft Policy on Open Standards, We will work with all communities including open source in this conference for this important battle for software freedom
-- Good number of talks by reputed speakers in the realm of Free Software struggle are being organized over the two days

Shri Katta Subramania Naidu, IT minster, Karnataka will be inaugurating the conference. Central ministers and State IT ministers, prominent literary figures, industry professionals and students are expected to participate.

We take this as an opportunity to urge each one of you to lend your help and support in making this National Conference on Free Software a success.

Free Software is the future, the future is ours.

check here for more information -> http://www.nc2010.fsmk.org/

by Raghavendra S via FSUG mailing list

Dear all,

This is a formal announcement of Drupal Sprint India event happening on October 30-31 2009. An event for those who love Drupal, geeks and non-geeks alike.

Announcing Drupal Sprint India, a gathering of Drupal enthusiast from all over India, to contribute to Drupal development.

The event is organized by Pune Linux Users Group with the support of Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan as Venue Sponsors.

Drupal is probably the best community driven CMS in open source. Community driven softwares need community contributions for regular enhancements and this is your chance to contribute and gain karma.Drupal sprint India is a two day non-stop event where Drupal developers, documentation and translation guys will get together to enhance Drupal. We will have code sprints, documentation sprints as well as translation sprints.

Join coding sprints to fix patches for upcoming Drupal 7 release or to port modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 or to develop new modules from scratch.

Join Documentation sprint to document Drupal. Documentation sprint will be headed by Addison Berry, Drupal documentation project lead.

Those interested in localization can join the party to translate Drupal to local languages.

You need not have *any experience* with enhancing Drupal before hand,even newbies are invited.

That is not all, we have more in store for you.

Got any Drupal success story to share or you have put Drupal to any innovative use or any magnificent case study where you have integrated Drupal with third party web services or web sites? This is the time to showcase this. Parallel to sprint, we will hold talks and workshops to showcase the capabilities of Drupal beyond CMS to build website. If you have a story to showcase, register for the event right ahead.

Talks/Workshop registration ends October 15 2009. All talks and registrations submitted will go through a community voting and top 10 talks plus workshops will be chosen for the event. We plan to hold total of 8 hours of talks and 8 hours of workshops around Drupal over two days.

Still interested in Drupal to use it in your next big venture... Just drop in and learn from the best Drupal brains around the country on how to put Drupal to best use.

So click http://drupalindia2009.plug.org.in now and register for the event.The event is free, registration is free. All you have to make sure that your code is also FREE.

So, what are you waiting for? Mark your calendar for the event dates!!

Best regards,
--Sudhanwa Jogalekar

vivek khurana X-posted via ILUGC Mailing list

Greetings,

The first "Scientific Computing with Python" conference in India (http://scipy.in) will be held from December 12th to 17th, 2009 at the Technopark in Trivandrum, Kerala, India (http://www.technopark.org/).

The theme of the conference will be "Scientific Python in Action" with respect to application and teaching. We are pleased to have Travis Oliphant, the creator and lead developer of numpy (http://numpy.scipy.org) as the keynote speaker.

Here is a rough schedule of the conference:

Sat. Dec. 12 (conference)
Sun. Dec. 13 (conference)
Mon. Dec. 14 (tutorials)
Tues. Dec. 15 (tutorials)
Wed. Dec. 16 (sprint)
Thu. Dec. 17 (sprint)

The tutorial sessions will have two tracks, one specifically for teachers and one for the general public.

There are no registration fees.

Please register at:

http://scipy.in

The call for papers will be announced soon.

This conference is organized by the FOSSEE project (http://fossee.in) funded by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development's National Mission on Education (NME) through Information and Communication Technology (ICT) jointly with SPACE-Kerala (http://www.space-kerala.org).

Regards,
Kadambari Devarajan via ILUGC Mailing List